Am I the only person who wasn't helped at all by reading David DeAngelo's newsletters? I see Double Your Dating recommended for newbies all the time, and I don't understand why.
Cocky/Funny is nothing more than a branch of teasing/coquetting. Some of the c/f lines he gives you are completely indistinguishable from normal teasing. Maybe it's my delivery, maybe it's me having been a n00b, but every time I tried c/f I was brushed off as an arrogant ass.
I have a friend who had the same problem. And then I log onto these forums and many other forums with people singing praises to David D. What gives?Even when I got the women to laugh at "plastic rolex", for example, it was a type of laugh that said "...I guess that's funny....heh..."
So to this day I've dropped cocky/funny and use a more generic, tried-and-true brand of teasing. It works SO much better.
There's also the problem of David DeAngelo teaching me, as a n00b, to over-analyze practically everything I do. What resulted was an extremely rigid way of approaching women..... and I'm supposed to "have fun with it", as he advises ...?
Mystery and Neil taught me so many useful things, and if it wasn't for me discovering them, I probably would have become too discouraged and given up pick-up altogether. Those guys break it down and tell you what you need to do, while remaining very loose and allowing for a few mistakes. Every bit of success I've had can be traced back to what they taught me.
So I say to newbies: familiarize yourself with Mystery, instead of relying on (what I found to be) the useless over-analyzing and inversely unhelpful generalizations of Double Your Dating. My dating wasn't doubled. 2 x 0 is still 0.